Avant-garde. 3 : experimental cinema, 1922-1954.

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Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experi...

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Corporate Authors: Visual Symphony Productions, Workshop 20 (Firm), California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.), Farallone Films, Official Films (Firm), Robair (Firm), George Eastman House. Motion Picture Department, Rohauer Collection, Kino International Corporation, Film Society, International Film Arts Guild, Ted Nemeth Studios, Films Kirsanoff (Firm), Society of Cinema Arts, Cine Art Library, Gryphon Productions
Other Authors: Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 (Performer), Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 (Performer), Howland, Olin, 1886-1959 (Actor), Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968 (Director), Foulkes, Llyn, 1934-, Cavalcanti, Alberto (Director), Klein, Charles F. (Director), Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982 (Director), Bute, Mary Ellen (Director), Nemeth, Ted, 1911-1986 (Director), Munson, Kent (Actor), Huff, Theodore (Director), Peterson, Sidney, 1905-2000 (Director), Broughton, James, 1913-1999 (Director), Kessler, Chester (Director), Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957 (Director), Maas, Willard (Director), Whitney, John, Sr., 1917-1995 (Director), Rohauer, Raymond, Schmitz, John E. (Director), Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, Marc'O (Director), Winik, Leslie (Producer), Block, Bela von, Parker, John J., Spring, Robert H. (Producer, Director), Barber, Maurice, Vickman, Leon, Ridley, Charles A., Moore, Ben, Wood, Bret, Harrison, Jean-Pierre, Carliner, Lewis, Hériat, Philippe, 1898-1971 (Actor), Bernis, Blanche (Actor), Matiesen, Otto, 1893-1932 (Actor), Heick, William, Halprin, Anna, Lathrop, Welland, Lease, Rex, 1903-1966, Gerschefski, Edwin, 1909-1992, Smith, William O. (William Overton), 1926-2020, Thiriet, Maurice, 1906-1972, Weber, Ben, 1916-1979, Calmel, Roger, Mercer, Paul, 1971-, Thompson, William C., A.S.C, Antheil, George, 1900-1959, Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972, Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
Format: DVD
Language:English
French
Published: New York, NY : Kino International, ©2009.
Edition:Deluxe two-disc ed.
Subjects:
Art, Abstract > In motion pictures.
Experimental films > United States.
Motion pictures, American > History.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Experimental films > United States > History.
Experimental films > France.
Surrealism in motion pictures.
Visual literature.
Experimental films.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures, American.
Surrealism.
Motion pictures > United States.
Motion pictures > France.
Videodiscs.
France.
United States.
Silent films.
Short films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Surrealist films.
Short films > France.
Short films > Great Britain.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures > Great Britain.
Video recordings.
Anthology films.
Fiction films.
History.
Experimental > Feature.
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Summary:Long before home video there flourished an alternative cinema culture on college campuses and around art theaters, where foreign film fare was often accompanied by a short subject. As reliable 16mm film equipment became available to non-professionals, artists independent of film centers began experimenting with cinema. Serious film societies sprang up in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, holding semi-private screenings of non-commercial artistic films. For years, these pictures have been exhibited only in infrequent museum screenings, if at all. This collection is of mainly American pictures, principally one-man artistic endeavors made from little more than an artist's desire to express feelings with a camera.
Item Description:Title from disc label; edition and some credits from container.
"Produced for video by Bret Wood"--Container.
Third film has container title: The tell-tale heart.
Special features: Notes by K.A. Westphal for each film are available via the "Select a film" menu; Introduction to bonus films; Tomatos another day outtakes.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (approximately 289 min.) : sound & si., black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC.
Production Credits:Danse macabre: music, Camille Saint-Saëns ; animation, F.A.A. Dahme. Rien que les heures: photography, James Rogers ; music, Larry Marotta. Telltale heart: photography, Leo Shamroy ; music, Sue Harshe. Tarantella: music, Edwin Gerschefski. Four in the afternoon: music, William O. Smith. La mort du cerf: photography, Emile Houdeyer ; music, Maurice Thiriet ; English translation, Anna-Elisa and Jerome Mackowiak. Image in the snow: music, Ben Weber. The voices: music, Warren Burns. Closed vision: English adaptation and translation, Matthew Carney ; director of photography, J.G. Albicocco ; editing, J.G. Albicocco ; music, Roger Calmel. Episodes in the life of a gin bottle: music, Paul Mercer, Bruce Bennett, and Davis Petterson. Dementia: photography, William C. Thompson ; music, George Antheil. Falling pink: music, Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett.

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